the big deal about LPFM is not what music gets played on the air. free speech doesn't mean some dj picking out the music s/he likes--it means somebody going on the air and actually having something to say. it's about letting communities getting together and deciding who gets airtime before an election instead of corporations selling it off to the highest bidder. it's about underground news media having somewhat equal footing with the mainstream.
music is nice. but it can be incredibly trivial. people are getting their panties all up in a bunch over clear channel playing shitty music when the reality is that before clear channel bought up all the big radio stations around the country, those stations were still just playing music and promoting concerts and tipping you off to the morning commute.
well we can fantasize can't we?
really, though? damn i thought i had that one--back of vespertine says: one little indian records (her label) distr. by Polydor (RIAA) outside of UK & North America...
My bad: V2 is in the RIAA. Missed that one when I was checking the list (and i really was) earlier.
here's me namechecking labels that aren't members of the RIAA (according to their own list:
warp (aphex twin, autechre, etc.)
matador (interpol, cat power, new pornographers, etc.)
sub pop (postal service, hot hot heat, nirvana's "bleach")
one little indian (bjork)
tigerbeat6 (kid606)
asphodel (dj spooky, x-ecutioners, mixmaster mike)
kill rock stars (sleater-kinney)
bloodshot (neko case)
def jux (el-p, rjd2)
ipecac (mike patton's label)
...mego, mille plateaux, schematic, thrill jockey, k, atavistic, mr. lady, anticon, smells like records/SYR, ecstatic peace, thud rumble, orthlorng musork, tresor, klangbad,....
point is, there's (probably literally) a million indies out there. There's good shit on major labels too--missy, radiohead, nin, sonic youth, white stripes (sorry), eminem--hell there's even good stuff that they play on clear channel stations. But that figure about the RIAA controlling 85% of all recorded music or whatever is irrelevant when the majority of worthwhile music comes from outside the RIAA.
and i still maintain that if your record collection isn't actually records (or in special cases, limited edition CDs, which can be very nicely packaged) it doesn't count!
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(Ok. I'm kidding. If you have lots of MP3s, it takes hard work--or at least time--to pick those up--assuming they're hard to find in the first place. But then they're still probably not as hard to track down as the actual LPs they're from, huh?
1.) RIAA going after p2p users doesn't matter: they don't put out anything worth downloading. The best music right now, especially lately, is coming from indies that aren't part of the RIAA...at least according to the list on boycott-riaa.com. Aside from maybe Radiohead, the White Stripes are easily the current king & queen of rock 'n roll--they've hit the cover of every rock mag this year--and guess what? Their label, V2 is an indie, not part of the RIAA. OK, there are good artists on major labels, but the majority of interesting new music is on indies.
2.) Your giant record collection doesn't count if it's on your own CDRs; your songs aren't real unless they're on vinyl.
3.) So what if the RIAA closes down p2p networks and clear channel gobbles up every radio station in the country and all you can hear on the radio is the latest TRL (is taht still on?) crap. Who cares. It just makes good music that much harder to find and people who have it will be that much cooler. People who aren't willing to go out and hunt for interesting new music (and there's plenty of it out there) will be stuck listening to the crap they deserve to hear.
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the big deal about LPFM is not what music gets played on the air. free speech doesn't mean some dj picking out the music s/he likes--it means somebody going on the air and actually having something to say. it's about letting communities getting together and deciding who gets airtime before an election instead of corporations selling it off to the highest bidder. it's about underground news media having somewhat equal footing with the mainstream.
music is nice. but it can be incredibly trivial. people are getting their panties all up in a bunch over clear channel playing shitty music when the reality is that before clear channel bought up all the big radio stations around the country, those stations were still just playing music and promoting concerts and tipping you off to the morning commute.
well we can fantasize can't we? really, though? damn i thought i had that one--back of vespertine says: one little indian records (her label) distr. by Polydor (RIAA) outside of UK & North America...
yeah i fuckin' caught that. my bad. bjork still ain't riaa.
My bad: V2 is in the RIAA. Missed that one when I was checking the list (and i really was) earlier.
here's me namechecking labels that aren't members of the RIAA (according to their own list:
warp (aphex twin, autechre, etc.)matador (interpol, cat power, new pornographers, etc.)
sub pop (postal service, hot hot heat, nirvana's "bleach")
one little indian (bjork)
tigerbeat6 (kid606)
asphodel (dj spooky, x-ecutioners, mixmaster mike)
kill rock stars (sleater-kinney)
bloodshot (neko case)
def jux (el-p, rjd2)
ipecac (mike patton's label)
...mego, mille plateaux, schematic, thrill jockey, k, atavistic, mr. lady, anticon, smells like records/SYR, ecstatic peace, thud rumble, orthlorng musork, tresor, klangbad,....
point is, there's (probably literally) a million indies out there. There's good shit on major labels too--missy, radiohead, nin, sonic youth, white stripes (sorry), eminem--hell there's even good stuff that they play on clear channel stations. But that figure about the RIAA controlling 85% of all recorded music or whatever is irrelevant when the majority of worthwhile music comes from outside the RIAA.
and i still maintain that if your record collection isn't actually records (or in special cases, limited edition CDs, which can be very nicely packaged) it doesn't count!
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(Ok. I'm kidding. If you have lots of MP3s, it takes hard work--or at least time--to pick those up--assuming they're hard to find in the first place. But then they're still probably not as hard to track down as the actual LPs they're from, huh?
my bad: your songs aren't real unless they're on vinyl or special limited edition cd packaging.
no middlement. see: punk rock.
1.) RIAA going after p2p users doesn't matter: they don't put out anything worth downloading. The best music right now, especially lately, is coming from indies that aren't part of the RIAA...at least according to the list on boycott-riaa.com. Aside from maybe Radiohead, the White Stripes are easily the current king & queen of rock 'n roll--they've hit the cover of every rock mag this year--and guess what? Their label, V2 is an indie, not part of the RIAA. OK, there are good artists on major labels, but the majority of interesting new music is on indies. 2.) Your giant record collection doesn't count if it's on your own CDRs; your songs aren't real unless they're on vinyl. 3.) So what if the RIAA closes down p2p networks and clear channel gobbles up every radio station in the country and all you can hear on the radio is the latest TRL (is taht still on?) crap. Who cares. It just makes good music that much harder to find and people who have it will be that much cooler. People who aren't willing to go out and hunt for interesting new music (and there's plenty of it out there) will be stuck listening to the crap they deserve to hear.